Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-12
TIE Magnificent Possibilities Of Young
Mn.
TIE DEFENSE OF YOUNG MEN.

TIE DEFENSE OF YOUNG 4
BROOKLYN, October 80: Six thous'
and people, sitting and standing in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, and all the adj
Joining rooms packed, and people
turned away! Such was the scene to-
day., The congregation sang:
Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve,
And press With yigor on"
The Rev. +. Dewitt Talmage, ID. d.,
preached on the subject: defense OF
Young Men, and took his text from
III. Kings, chap. vi, V. II:
* fsAua ire lord opened the eyes OF the
young man"
DR.. Talmage said:
One morning in Dorthan q young
theological student was scared by find
himself and Elisha, The prophet. upon
d whom he waited, surrounded by a
whole army Of enemies. But venerable
Elisha was rot scared at all, because
heisaw the mountains full of defense
for aim, in chariots made out OF fire.
wheels of fire, dashboard of fire, and
cushion Of fire, drawn by horses with
nostrils If fire, and name of fire, and
launches OF fire, hoofs of fire--a sup
ernatural appearance that could not be
seer with the natural eye. So the old
minister prayed that the young minis
ter might see them also, and the
PRAYER was answered, and the Lord
.peuod the eyes of the young man, and
no also saw the fiery procession, look
ing somewhat, l suppose, like the
Adirondacks or the A~lleghanies IN this
Autamnal ~resplendonce.
Many young men standing among
the most tremendous realities, have
their eyes half shut or entirely closed.
May God grant that my sermon may
open wide your eyes to your safety,
your opportunity and your destiny.
THE HOME THE DEFENSE OF YOUNG
MEN.
A mighty defense for a young man
is a good home. Some of my hearers
hook back with tender satisfaction to
their early home. 1t may have been
rude and rustic, hidden among the
hills. and architect or upholsterer never
aL -
planned or adorned it. But all the
fresco on princely walls never looked
SO enticing % you as those rough hewn
CATERS. You can think of no park or
arbor OF trees planted on fashionable
) country seat so attractive as the Ilain
bEaolS that ran in front of the old farm
house and sang under the weeping viii
Elows. No barred gateway, adorned
with statue OF bronze, and swung open
Ny obscquious porter in full dress, has
half the glory of the swing gate. Many
of,you have a second dwelling place,
your adopted home, that also is sacred
forever. There you built the first fam
lily altar. There your children were
born. All those trees you planted.
That room is solemn, because once in
it, we the hot pillow. tapped the wing
of death. Under that roof you expect
when your work is done to lie
down and die. You Try with many
words to tell the excellency of the
place. but you fail. There is only one
word in the language that can describe
your meaning 1t Is home.
Now, / declare it, that young man is
comparatively safe who goes out into
World with a charm like this upon him.
The memory Of
PARENTAL soLrOITUDE,
watching, planning and praying, will
be 10 him a shield and g shelter. !
never knew a man faithful both to his
early and adopted home, who a. the
same time was given over to any gross
form OF dissipation and wickedness.
He vho seeks his enjoyment chiefly
from outside association. rather than
from the more quiet and unpresuming
! pleasures of which | have spoken, may
be suspected To be on the broad road
TO ruin. Absalom despised his fathers
house, and you know his history of sin
and his death of shame. If you seem
unnecessarily isolated from your
kindred and former associates, is there
not some room that YOU can call your
own Into it gather books, and pic
lures and a harp. Have a portrait
over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth
stand back from the threshold. Con-
secrate some spot with the knee. of
prayer. BY the memory Of other days,